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Tip of the Week: HIPAA Intertwines with Myriad Aspects of Practice
By Shane P. Desselle, RPh, PhD, FAPhA
Practicing according to HIPAA standards, though, is not just to protect yourself legally, but it is the right thing to do by way of patient care, particularly through the ethical tenets of beneficence and patient autonomy.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is 1 of many laws and regulations with which pharmacies must comply. Failing to do so can result in extraordinary fines, termination by an employer, suspension or revocation of licensure, and long-lasting career damage.
Practicing according to HIPAA standards, though, is not just to protect yourself legally, but it is the right thing to do by way of patient care, particularly through the ethical tenets of beneficence and patient autonomy. HIPAA extends to many aspects of practice, not just the obvious maintenance of confidentiality preventing you from discussing patient-protected information with others not involved in the patient's treatment.
In a Duke Law Journal article on prescription drug policing, the author reviews some issues that operate at the intersection of privacy law, Fourth Amendment doctrine, and public health realities triggered by the United States drug overdose epidemic.1 Reputable reporting sources and public health scholars frame this ongoing overdose crisis as a prescription drug overdose problem attributable to the overprescribing of opioid analgesics. The author claims that this narrative runs counter to epidemiological data, which indicate that the majority of American overdose deaths are now a result of illicit drug use and not prescription drug abuse. However, this has sparked the rapid rise of law enforcement and regulatory surveillance of prescribers and patients in the form of state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) databases.
State PDMPs, which maintain and analyze significant data concerning every dispensed prescription, collect a wealth of patient-protected health information (PHI). The author states that PDMPs are largely criminal and regulatory law enforcement tools dressed up in public health. Under the guise of rogue prescriber, pill mill, and doctor shopper crack downs, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has made it a routine practice to self-issue administrative subpoenas to conduct sweeps of sensitive protected health data stored in state PDMP databases. This widespread law enforcement prescribing surveillance tactic, which reveals highly personal health information, including patients' contraceptive histories, gender transition decisions, and HIV diagnoses, raises serious constitutional privacy concerns.
The Supreme Court's recent Fourth Amendment decision, Carpenter v. United States, however, may limit law enforcement's ability to continue to access troves of electronically stored patient prescribing-related PHI in the custody of a state regulatory agency without a court order supported by probable cause. The article author highlights that pertinent pre-Carpenter precedent requires the DEA to obtain a Fourth Amendment warrant to conduct sweeps of state PDMP databases searching patient protected health information and that courts are even more likely to rule that warrantless DEA searches of sensitive and frequently revealing health care data run afoul of the Fourth Amendment in the post-Carpenter world. Simply stated, PDMP protected health information is entitled to Fourth Amendment warrant protection.
This court case mainly pertains to PDMP programs, but there are takeaways here for pharmacists and pharmacy managers. First, HIPAA is a powerful, strongly enforced federal law that in court cases trumps other regulations when 2 or more laws or regulations might be at odds. Second, patient right to privacy, then, is absolutely paramount. Third, while pharmacy managers cannot know the result of every court case, there are various sources, particularly good continuing education updates, that keep them abreast of legal trends that dictate practice. Finally, pharmacy managers should have knowledge of epidemiological data, and be able to reflect and look at all sides of complicated health care issues.
Additional information about medication therapy management and management functions can be found in Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 5e. You or your institution can subscribe to AccessPharmacy to access the textbook.
Shane P. Desselle, RPh, PhD, FAPhA, Professor of Social/Behavioral Pharmacy at Touro University California.
Oliva JD. Prescription drug policing: The right to protected information privacy pre- and post-Carpenter. Duke Law Journal. 2018(69)5;775. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3225000&download=yes. Revised April 22, 2020. Accessed July 8, 2020.
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MODERNIST CERAMICS BY PICASSO, MIRÓ, LURÇAT AND THE BAYSWATER THREE
Marshall Colman	ceramics	 20 November 2016 25 November 2020 2 Minutes
In the dark, grey days of post-war austerity, the ceramists William Newland, Margaret Hine (above) and Nicholas Vergette, known as The Bayswater Three, found a ready market for their cheerful, Mediterranean-influenced pottery and they did well with contracts from the newly-emerging coffee bars. They were influenced by the ceramics of Picasso (below), who took up pottery in his mid-60s, embarking on a new stage in his career at a time when most people are thinking of retiring, and producing hundreds of pieces over the following years. Picasso ceramics were seen in Britain for the first time in 1950 in Picasso in Provence, a show at the Royal Academy, which caused a stir and encouraged many people to take up pottery.
Newland's papers in the Central Saint Martins archive record much of this period. He was training art teachers at London's Institute of Education, many of whom were inspired by Picasso's ceramics. There was an enthusiasm for ceramics in schools, which equipped pottery studios, and education authorities sent round traveling exhibitions of pottery to inspire the pupils.
Newland's enthusiasm for brightly-painted European pottery represented a counter-current to Bernard Leach's muted pottery inspired by the country wares of England and Japan. "It wasn't that we were anti-Leach,", said Newland, "it's just that we had other things to do." But reading his papers, you detect his irritation with Leach, whom he regarded, with some justification, as pretentious and full of himself. He mentions the exhibition of Ceramics in the Home, organised in 1951 by The Observer newspaper that showed work by Newland, Vergette and Hine, Hans Coper and Lucie Rie. Leach wasn't included. That annoyed him, said Newland, and he kicked up a fuss with his MP. At that point that Leach dismissed the others as "Picassoettes".
Newland says that they could just as well have been be called Miróettes, because Picasso was only one of their influences. Many other continental artists had turned to pottery at that time, Miró (above), and Lurçat (below) in particular.
One artist not mentioned by Newland was Gino Severini. I didn't know he had worked in ceramics until I saw this piece (below) in a shop in Cortona, his birthplace. It's painted in overglaze colours on blanks which had been made in a factory. Severini is well known as one of the original Futurists, the iconoclastic artists who grouped themselves around Marinetti, but he had a much longer career post-Futurism, and worked in several media. Not surprisingly he tried ceramics as well.
There is renewed interest in the artistic ceramics of this period. Some of it is interesting rather than good, but much of it is good as well as interesting, an attempt to create a modernist art pottery that doesn't look back sentimentally towards rural and pre-industrial forms.
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The Mirrors That We Drape
Deirdre Hines
Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital, by Kevin Higgins, Salmon Poetry, 98 pp, €12, ISBN: 9781912561728
What I hate about you wondering why Trump won
is our failure to look in the mirror
"My View of Things
after Edwin Morgan"
It is estimated that as a species we take fourteen trillion photos annually. These images can be photoshopped to make us look as perfect as any billboard model. In a short story by Borges called "The Draped Mirrors", a dislike of mirrors is explained as a precondition for narcissism. In Kevin Higgins's fifth poetry collection, "Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital", the deliberate draping of our collective mirrors by our political and religious representatives, our poets, and indeed the poet himself is examined through the piercing gaze of a satirist at the height of his powers. The three sections the book is divided into are titled "Sex and Death", "My View of Things" and "World Festival of Literary Intercourse", and the whole encompasses fifty-nine poems. The imagery presented to, for, and of the reader is not intended for the solipsistic. If you, like Neo in The Matrix, would have chosen the red pill, representing an unveiling of illusions and harsh knowledge, then this book will not disappoint. Those who would have chosen the blue pill need read no further.
If the purpose of satire is to change the world, or at least to change the ways in which we think about it, do poets like Higgins do more than elicit complacent smiles from those who already share their point of view? The strong responses that his poems evoke suggest otherwise. One of the hallmarks of the poems in this collection is the sheer number of them written after other poets, thirty-one of the fifty-nine here, poets both living and dead. The opening poem of the first section is written after Günter Eich. Eich was at the vanguard of an effort to restore German as a language for poetry after the vitriol, propaganda and lies of the Third Reich. Titled "Sarcoid Years", in it Higgins writes wryly of his sarcoidosis. This inflammatory disease that affects multiple organs in the body may be triggered by a body's immune system responding to foreign substances, such as viruses, bacteria or chemicals. Higgins deploys the armoury of the satirist in the eighteen poems that comprise this section to restore English as a language for poetry that transcends the taboos of death and illness and to move beyond the obsession with the self. His deliberate exaggeration and distortion allow for a bawdy humour, particularly evident in his frank references to sexuality. In "The Medicines" written after Thomas Hardy, most probably Hardy's poem "The Dead Man Walking", we find the poet diving into the settee for white, yellow and green pills.
And this is the green pill that helps me
Stop killing people,
Except when absolutely necessary
And this is the clear bag of liquid
They drip into my arm every eight weeks
Which makes me want to have sex with everyone,
Even the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Who my wife insists
Is too young for me anyway.
Higgins is a master of both the parenthetical and the prepositional clause, using them to shatter our expectations. The cumulative effect of the poems in this section is threefold. Poems such as "Someday I'll Love Kweeveen O'Higgeen", written after Ocean Vuong, "Susan", written to his wife, and "For Cynthia", written after Sextus Propertius, satirise Poetry's adulation of the self, the tropes of romantic imagery and the body as it is in middle age and not as romantic idealism would have it. Lines such as "You passing through your friends / like a Cà Ri Gà chicken curry stew" are the antithesis of Vuong's "Your dead friends passing / through you like wind / through a wind chime" and possess a grave humour that is quintessentially Higginsian. The knife edge of any Higgins line attacks the bumbling ineptitude of corruption, so that even in a paean to his wife we find the lines "Your wrists and ankles / are engineering projects whose failure / led to a public inquiry that's expected / to go on forever."
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. Cynthia was the older woman who would inspire him to express his poetic genius. "For Cynthia" is a departure for Higgins, in that he adopts the sonnet as his form, but the lines are still quintessentially those of this dissident of romantic description: "Our bodies / are Wibbly Wobbly Wonders / melting in the sun." There is nothing beyond the here and now for Higgins. In the poem "Prayer to the Absolute Dark" his nihilism is extended to anything religious. Like Rilke, after whom the poem "Spring Day" is written, he sees religion as the art of those who are uncreative. It is fitting that the poem, which ends this section is the brilliant "Coalition of the Disappointed", those disappointed being all those who regret the poet's delay in passing, particularly members of the contemporary poetry scene. For many years, Higgins has run a monthly reading series in Galway showcasing new writing with his wife, the poet Susan Millar Du Mars. When he writes: "Unmentionable now in the company / women of our status aspire to keep ‑ / he once put us standing on high stages, / adjusted microphones for us / got our names in the relevant / provincial newspapers, / and said them / over and over again / on sociable media", he addresses those whom in the poet's opinion are the most disgruntled by his continued existence.
In the twenty-eight poems that comprise the second section of this seminal collection, Higgins gives no quarter. It is titled "My View of Things", and this unveiling is precisely targeted against the rapacity of Conservative economic policy("After the terrible events earlier"), all the collaborators in the Tuam Babies scandal ("Heavy Clogs"), the Irish government ("Leader of Irish Government Speaks Against Hyperbole"), after Shakespeare, the Blairs ("What Did The Politician Get His Wife?") after Brecht, the insufferable other in "My View of Things", after Edwin Morgan, the rationalisms of military policy in Gaza in "Let me Tell You About Them", the banality of the American response to criticisms about their border policy of separating children from their parents in "The Truth Behind the Wire", the transgender revolution in "Beige Heterosexuals", child safety policy and the internet in "Internet Safety for Adults", language and its relation to gender in "Fixing the National Discourse", dedicated to Dr Mary McAuliffe, a lecturer in gender studies at UCD, male privilege in "Refusal" after Les Murray, the process by which the activist Jacqueline Walker was expelled from the British Labour Party on a charge of antisemitism in "Anatomy of a Bomb Scare", John McDonnell's response to the seven Labour Party MPs who left the party in "Listening Exercise", the former British prime minister's Human Rights Act in "The Great Repeal", the obduracy of politicians in "The Minister for Loneliness" and their usurpation of language in "The Man Who Spoke Slogan"; the section has its triumphant finale in the visionary "Hoodied Bridget", after Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, where all of the above will see the wheel of justice arrive for them in the guise of the unseen and ignored working class Bridget, a type of underground working class superheroine every politician chooses as their scotoma.
everything you think rightfully yours
being silently unloaded by others like me
made what they are
by years looking at the likes of you
poured into their waistcoat, believing in
the divine right of your money.
What Higgins hates about the supermarket majority shareholder ("After the terrible events earlier"), the deaf schoolmistress, the amnesiac departmental inspector, the censoring editor of a local newspaper, the robotic platitudes of ministers, the cost fetishes of county councillors ("Heavy Clogs"), the dinner invites and three-storey pads of a politician's wife ("What Did the Politician Get His Wife?") is neatly summed up in two lines of the poem "My View of Things":
is your failure to look in the mirror.
This is what the poet has to say himself about the way in which other poets influence and inspire the shape and theme of the poems he has written after them.
When I read a poem by another poet, maybe translated from another language, I see the approach they took to a subject and the shape of the poem and I think maybe I could take that approach to another subject. I use the shape of the original poem like a container into which I pour the liquid of my own poem.
Edwin Morgan was Scotland's first official "Makar", and was, like Higgins, committed to a radically democratic left-wing political perspective. Allusion of course is an important weapon in the armoury of the satirist, and there is nothing untoward about its use here, as in the main Higgins is at pains throughout this section to stress that these poems are his own view of things. There is a certain irony in this, as he was expelled by the British Labour Party for the poem "What Did the Politician Get His Wife?" So there is something else at play here, in my opinion, something that leans towards a call for plurality of opinion that the simple dichotomy of left and right does not allow for. In many ways, Higgins's poems remind me of the old adage about the bird and its wings. Spread out for flight both the left and the right wing are poles apart, but as the bird lands, both wings fold, and the difference between left and right wing is non-existent.
A prominent theme in the history of satire has been its support of patriarchal norms. One of the major problems with the mode is that it is often open to misinterpretation. It would be remiss not to look at Higgins's satire "Beige Heterosexuals" after Jameson Fitzpatrick in a little more detail, as the transgender revolution is quite possibly the issue of the day. I would suggest that there are two ways of reading this poem ‑ which is also open for debate as that is a binary stance. So let's say that there are several ways of approaching the truth of this poem. In the first, the poet after which the poem is written is Jameson Fitzpatrick, whose iconic "I Woke Up" delineates the poet's realisation that everything is political. This is delicious fare for a satirist as nimble as Higgins, but in today's world, where anything and everything is being held up for political analysis and scrutiny, divides have fissured the left. One of these is the issue of trensgenderism. Higgins is a "cis" man, and as such should stay in his privileged place. As indeed should trans-exclusionary radical feminists. Higgins does not and never has adhered to the shoulds that have been spawned in a world where eighty per cent of the wealth is owned by twenty per cent of the world population. Trans people face bigotry, stigma resulting in serious mental health issues. At the same time, natal or "cis" women also face bigotry, and stigma resulting in the same mental health issues for those who have been sexually abused, raped, shot, hanged or tortured for transgressions of the rules of their gender. By the same token, trans people have also experienced the same, although in countries where the patriarchal norm is the rule, it is harder for natal women to transgress. The issue in Higgins's poem revolves around the use of the lavatory on the bus she (Gerald) is taking from Ballina to Sligo, and her oppression. Higgins has Gerald travel in the luggage compartment of the bus that is going from Ballina and that he is taking from Sligo. Take this verse for instance:
What I'm trying to say is distance
is the problem with formerly beige
heterosexual women
who choose to travel in luggage compartments.
I'm not one of them, so I can both write this poem
and at the same time
not write it.
So Higgins is and is not Gerald, or is it, as in Juvenal's "Sixth Satire" the misogynistic character of the speaker which is being ridiculed? The anxieties on every side of this revolution cannot be easily dismissed. In many ways, Higgins is charting the way for the left to grow out of the slogans of the sixties and to move into a more layered and nuanced debate on every issue.
The final section of the book contains thirteen poems, and is Higgins's swipe at the institutional posturing, exclusions and inequalities of outcome of Poetry itself. Entitled "World Festival of Literary Intercourse", each poem in it tears apart the tropes of clever university poets wearing jackets, Instagram poetic celebrities, universally loved poets like Mary Oliver, poems which have gained the status of national treasure like Clarke's "The Planter's Daughter" to clear a space for the absent presence in contemporary poetic norm. In "Up with Clever Literature", written after Roy Campbell,
the polarising South African satirist whose support for Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War gave him problems with the British intelligentsia, Higgins attacks clever literature that touches on the malaises at the core of society, without ever quite telling it like it really is:
metaphors that blind like a comb-over
so successful the reader forgets the ham
Metaphor may be a requisite for the serious poet, but lazy metaphor that is as ineffectual as a bowl of Angel Delight only props up the status quo, and if Higgins is about anything he is about breaking apart and down the ladders on which the pompous display their proffered erudition. In the poem "Review of Non-Existent Poetry Collection", Higgins makes clear his derision for lazy and ineffectual writing. This non-existent poetry collection is "as slim and radical / as a student rioting in favour of / privatisation". I loved the last verse, where he takes a swipe at poor line break:
These line breaks are as agile
as a Masters student
forever threatening to pleasure
his or her professor,
but never actually doing so.
One gets the feeling that this poetry collection does in fact exist, but Higgins forces us to relook at the collections we may have hitherto deemed laudable. This is one of the reasons I dive into a Higgins poem with a feeling of delicious danger. Nothing is sacrosanct, including himself, The sacred cows of literature and the mechanics of the industry behind the promotion of the same are dissected with a razor-sharp beak, an implement that one would be excused for thinking belonged to a member of the corvid genus rather than simply being the human tongue. The most acerbic and successful of these poems was for me "The Caint World Festival of Literary Intercourse", where the female correspondent of the Dalkey Episcopalian is one of the more memorable caricatures of the collection, deserving of a spot on the now defunct television show Spitting Image. This is where I should imagine one person's satire is in danger of being another person's blasphemy. In Ireland poets have an almost mythological status, in the sense that people still believe in the poet's curse and the power of the pen. The most dramatic recent example of this is the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which has continued to publish in the same manner in spite of the murder of several of its staff in 2015. The paper is part of a long-standing French tradition of militant secularism, and regards the law of 1905, which brought about the separation of church and state in France as having implications much more detailed and far-reaching way than the present process in Ireland or the similar constitutional separation in the USA. The paper claims a right to be offensive, as indeed do all poets which use satire as their modus operandi. It is to our credit that an island as small as Ireland has birthed one of the cleverest and most insightful of satirists in a time when countries are closing the borders on what can actually be said. The irony remains that as language is put through the paces of political correctness, a safety net has been created for political scandal, compassion and tolerance of a different point of view, at the very time when we need language, in particular the language of a poet at the height of his sharpened perpsective, to unveil the double meanings of slogans and populism that serve to further the totalitarianism of the right. Little wonder then that the last poem in this collection, "Treatise on Uselessness", is one which addresses the perceived uselessness of the gypsies, as maligned a group as Higgins in particular and the satirist in general. I leave you with these nuggets, which like the labyrinth of Crete, will allow you to emerge on the other side much changed and with a need to change the prescription for your glasses, whether you wear them or not, as nothing is ever seen the same way again if you truly engage with a Higgins poem.
Despite millions ingested
by social programmes, we've mostly
failed to submerge gypsies
in the internationally agreed system
of an indecent day's pay
for a decent week's work.
The collection is published by Salmon Press. Buy your copy now, before the thought police remove all extant copies for the state-appointed incinerators, of what absolutely and categorically The Griffin Prize Board cannot and should not be allowed to read.


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My Experience Volunteering with Sunderland Shorts
13th October 2016 13th October 2016 Kristian ForemanBlogLeave a Comment on My Experience Volunteering with Sunderland Shorts
With preparations for the third Sunderland Shorts Film Festival now underway, it's clear that the event has proved to be a great success and an important addition to the cultural scene in Sunderland as the city bids to be UK City of Culture 2021.
My own involvement with the event began when I responded to an advert requesting volunteers to help out at the inaugural festival in July 2015 – being new to the area and myself a filmmaker, I jumped at the opportunity to get involved and meet like-minded people who shared my interest in film and culture. The prospect of an international short film festival being held in the city was also an exciting one.
Arriving at Sunderland Minster for the launch event, I was greeted by a friendly festival team who immediately made me feel welcome, and I was extremely impressed by the quality of films being screened, ranging from light-hearted comedies and animations suitable for children to dramas and films with much darker adult themes.
My experience at the first festival was such a positive one that I put myself forward as a volunteer reviewer, which involves watching and reviewing a selection of the films submitted by filmmakers from all over the world for inclusion in the festival. The diversity of genres and subject matter, reflected in the final programming for both the 2015 and 2016 festivals, ensured that this was an entertaining and stimulating experience, and seeing films that I had reviewed being screened at the 2016 festival was very satisfying.
Volunteering with Sunderland Shorts has been hugely rewarding, which is why I returned this year and continue to volunteer as a reviewer. The link with DC Shorts Film Festival in America, as well as the visiting filmmakers from all over the world and the inclusion of foreign language films, all add an exciting international element to the festival, resulting in a rich and engaging experience.
I'm convinced that the festival will continue to gain momentum and has a bright future ahead of it, becoming a key event in the city's cultural calendar, and I would encourage anyone with an interest in film and arts to consider volunteering as a reviewer or to help out at some of the events. With work on Sunderland's bid to be UK City of Culture 2021 now in progress, this is a particularly exciting time to get involved with Sunderland Shorts and a great way of supporting culture in the city.
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Murder, mystery, storytelling and film in Dungarvan, November 16th & 17th
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Local historian and author, John Young, pictured at Dungarvan Castle ahead of the free, bi-lingual Murder Mystery weekend planned for Dungarvan, Co Waterford, on November 16 and 17. He leads a free, guided walking tour of the town, visiting sites of murders, hangings and other violent occurrences in the history of the town. All events are free, are organised by the Irish Office at Waterford City and County Council as part of the ongoing Bliain na Gaeilge and Creative Ireland celebrations.
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The wrongful conviction and subsequent hanging of innocent men for murder in the 1880s and the mystery disappearance of a local postman on Christmas Day almost one hundred years ago are among the many real life tragedies which will be under the spotlight at the, bi-lingual Murder Mystery weekend planned for Dungarvan, Co Waterford, on November 16 and 17.
Locals and visitors with an interest in history, the law, language, tall tales, mystery and mayhem, will be enthralled throughout the two-day, free programme of Irish language and bi-lingual events. It's all organised by the Irish Office at Waterford City and County Council as part of the ongoing Bliain na Gaeilge and Creative Ireland celebrations.
There will be free children's storytelling and mask-making, big screen drama, walks, talks, storytelling, singing and more, Irish Officer, Máire Seó Breathnach, revealed. And you don't have to be a native or a fluent Irish speaker to join in. Many of the big screen events will be subtitled and several events will be conducted in both Irish and English, she explained.
"It's the first time we've staged a Murder Mysteries weekend and we feel that it's an appropriate time of the year to hold such an event. We have gone all out to provide something for everyone – be they Irish speakers, those with little or no Irish, someone interested in history, folklore, music and song, locals or visitors. There is a wide range of events and activities to suit different age groups and interests.
"Dungarvan, like many places, has its tragedies and its unsolved mysteries and crimes. Murder is a recurring theme in storytelling, in folklore and unfortunately, in real life. These mysteries and murders have fascinated people down through the generations.
"Our opening night events on Friday 16th November will look at a particularly fascinating aspect of justice when it comes to murder, probing how the truth was lost in translation in the Maam Trasna Murder Trial in the 1880s, as native Irish speakers from Connemara stood trial in an English-speaking court through a language they neither understood nor spoke. We will discuss if the same could apply today to non-English speaking immigrants who find themselves in Irish courts in today's justice system.
We are delighted to have former governor of Mountjoy, John Lonergan, and Law and Irish lecturer at UCC, Dr Seán Ó Conaill, speaking on this topic at Dungarvan Courthouse. This opening event will also include a performance of a short excerpt from the Maum Trasna Murder Trial by local actors from Aisteoirí an tSean Phobail and Lismore. This will be followed by the screening of the film 'Murdair Mhám Trasna' in the SGC Cinema. Seán Ó Cuirreáin, author of a book on the wrongful conviction and subsequent hanging of the Maum Trasna men, on which the film is based, will discuss the case following the film."There's also a light and a fun side to the weekend with our bilingual children's events – storytelling in Dungarvan Library and an art and craft workshop in the Old Market House Arts Centre.We're hoping that as many people as possible will join in for what is shaping up to be a great Bliain na Gaeilge celebration."
The second day's events include a free, children's storytelling session in the library with storyteller Máirín Mhic Lochlainn. It is primarily aimed at 8 to 10 year-olds and no pre-booking is necessary. Local historian, John Young, will give a free, guided walking tour of the town on Saturday at noon, visiting sites of murders, hangings and other violent occurrences in the history of the town.
A children's art workshop follows that afternoon at 2pm in the Old Market House Arts Centre. Participants will work with a local artist and make their very own Dia de los Meurtos masks. All materials will be provided free of charge to the participants.
Saturday afternoon's free programme continues with the screening of a subtitled documentary, 'The Missing Postman' in the SGC Cinema, followed by a talk with Fachtna Ó Drisceoil, author of a book on the mystery disappearance of a local postman in Stradbally, who disappeared on Christmas Day in the 1920s, never to be seen again.
The weekend festivities will close on a high note with an informal storytelling and sing-along session on the general theme of Murder in the Irish Ballad Tradition! Among those who will take part are sean-nós singer, Ciarán Ó Gealbháin, local historians Síle and Seán Ó Murchú and many, many more.
Media contact: Neans McSweeney, McSweeney Media (086) 2620 355 or neans@mcsweeneymedia.ie
Festival contact; Máire Seó Breathnach (0761) 102 884 or (087) 743 4123
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-- Action Alert --
Please sign an on-line "We The People" petition to help get research funding for White Nose Syndrome in the federal budget.
The NSS is joining Bat Conservation International and others in requesting President Obama to include funding for WNS in the Administration's 2013 budget.
The mechanism for doing this is a "We The People" petition, operated by the White House (http://wh.gov/TNK). We need 25,000 names by November 25 for the staff to recognize the issue and evaluate it for the President. The petition language is fairly general; specifics can be dealt with once the threshold is reached and staff begins to focus on the details.
The petition can be found here:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/fund-fight-against-white- nose-syndrome-president%E2%80%99s-fiscal-year-2013-budget/jH8Z4Fsl
If you are already have a whitehouse.gov account click "Sign In" enter your information and then click "Sign this Petition." If you are new to the whitehouse.gov webpage click "Create an Account." You will be sent an automated email to verify your new account and then you can return and click "Sign this Petition."
WNS is likely to be with us for some time, and this is the best way to help ensure ongoing long-term funding. In the short-term, please donate to the NSS' WNS Rapid Response Fund. We continue to have research funding requests for more immediate projects and need to replenish the fund: http://www.caves.org/WNS/Rapid_Response.shtml Thank you.
Peter Youngbaer
NSS 16161 CM/FE
NSS White Nose Syndrome Liaison


It seems like yesterday I was driving around town in my blue Mazda GLC jetting from one YMCA to another. For a twentysomething who majored in gerontology and exercise physiology in college, the job was a perfect fit. I got to hang out with really cool older adults and challenge them toward wellness. We called the program Prime Time 55+. Whether backpacking in the Catskills, camping on Catalina Island, or participating in routine YMCA fitness classes, these older adults realized life did not have to plateau when they reached a certain age.
Since those days, I've tacked on an additional twenty years in full-time ministry. And I've discovered that each of us, no matter how old, has options on how we age—spiritually speaking. Whether fifteen, twenty-five, fifty, or beyond, each of us is aging at this very moment. The question is, Are we aging well spiritually?
Over the years I've observed some pitfalls that hinder us. These serve as warnings to stay fresh and age well.
As we age, we become aware of more things to fear: dying, losing a child, losing a parent, being single, infertility, cancer, another 9/11. Gradually we lose the freedom and simple wonder that we had as children. We see the atrocities that life brings. Over time, if not attuned to what Scripture tells us about fear, we can unknowingly live with a fearful heart. As we look at reality, we must cling to God's commands in Scripture that tell us, "Do not fear for I am with you" (Isa. 41:10). If God is with us, why are we living in fear? To age well we must give our fears to the Lord and remember that He is Immanuel, God with us.
By the time a person reaches the mid-forties, he or she has probably experienced hurt such as betrayal, slander, or gossip by other believers. When pain occurs in relationships, our natural tendency is to pull away. God's Word commands us to "see to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many" (Heb. 12:15). Bitter roots can grow like uncontrollable weeds in our hearts and affect our relationships. But we musn't let them. We must practice forgiveness and love others well, pouring ourselves into the next generation.
The West today might define "aging gracefully" as maintaining physical beauty, staying self-sufficient, and being physically active and healthy. Is that possible? Not really. Wrinkles are inevitable, no matter how hard we try to hide them. We can't count on perfect health. We will age.
The body is a beautiful gift from the Lord, no matter what shape it is in. As we age, we find we are unable to do what we once did. Yet we can encourage, pray for, and support those around us who find their bodies declining. When we face our own physical issues, we must "not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16).
Often as people age, they develop a "been there, done that" mentality that can lead to apathy. Their status on Facebook could read "status quo." As we age, we can grow weary of so many things and even find our weariness acceptable. God's Word warns us to "Consider [Jesus], who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart" (Heb. 12:3). God knew we would need such an admonition to live life to completion. He knows our tendency to lose heart when troubles come. So don't give in to weariness. Stay fully alive.
When was the last time you complained or grumbled? Yet Philippians 2:14 tells us, "Do everything without complaining or arguing." Is it possible not to complain or grumble?
While living in Chicago, I observed that we Chicagoans had a problem with complaining about the weather. I thought it was "a Midwest thing" until I moved back to sultry Texas and once again heard the same fussing, only at a different time of year. I realized that with help from the Holy Spirit, I didn't have to succumb to such a complaining spirit. Through the power of the Spirit, we can be free of complaining and grumbling about anything.
Too many older people become so negative that their faces look like their spirits. They're unpleasant to be around. Over time, life will hand out plenty of challenges that could lead to a complaining spirit. But how will we respond when challenges come our way? What crummy attitudes have gotten the best of us as we have grown older? We can find out by checking in with a spouse or close friend.
What kind of person do you want to be when you are older? I'll never forget Florence Travis. She celebrated her one-hundredth birthday and radiated Christ at the nursing home where I worked. One day, before I left the job, she handed me a card with these words on it, "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you" (James 4:8, NASB). That card became my marching orders for years to come. I'll never forget Florence's words. I'll never forget Florence. I want to be like Florence when I'm her age: spiritually alive. It is possible!
class="author">Nancy Barton Abbott (MACE, 1990) has served in California, Illinois, and Texas churches for the past twenty years. She currently works serves as a speaker to single women with Intimate Issues conferences.


What about improving myelin from dietary changes?
(Apparently this is a thing) He says it's a very good question that needs more study.
This makes me slightly crazy. Improving myelin needs more study?! I get up to ask him why — if the functional return wasn't there from remyelinated axons, why are we bothering?
He says we have to make the existing myelin stronger and thicker and better.
I say that this is exactly the room where you'd want to say that. It's why we're here, so we can understand what's happening to us and how to repair it.
There are a few more questions, but I got a little wound up there and missed them.
Sorry. It's the end of the day and I think we're all getting a little twitchy.
I asked if we could just forget Schwann cell transplants since myelin transplants don't work. Then asked if doing more in the gray matter was the next thing. Like you I was rather floored by the apparent waste of decades and 10s of millions spent on remyelination.
Right! Thanks for reminding me. I think he said that Schwannn cells have other purposes, but I'm not recalling how he answered the gray matter question.


'Belle' is the ultimate Morgan! She has done everything we have ever asked of her including being a star in the ladies and ama hunter pleasure divisions last year for her first year as a hunter. This year we needed a walk-trot horse and Belle was our girl! She is THAT horse. Sound, honest and fun. Everyone loves to ride her and she rises to the level of the rider.
Ultra's Private Eye! And we like that because he's been a star for us!
She got her mother's long neck with a great hook at the top (Dam is a daughter of CCR's Outrajus Corajus) as well. She's leggy, game, and big going. She takes a huge step with ease, is built to wear the bridle, and was started under saddle this spring as well. She is good with her ears and loves to work, this filly will be a star.
Call 951-789-7101 or after Sept 25, 951-310-1295 (cell) to make an appointment to see her!
This 11 year old gelding is QUALITY!!
He has won in hand (World Champion Gelding, pleasure driving (World Grand Champion Open Pleasure Driving) and park harness (Amatuer, Ladies, and Open Championships this year!).
He is game, honest, dynamic, and sound. He's shown lightly under saddle as well, this could be the next division he conquers! He's by Tug Hill Whammunition and out of HVK Ancient Cry...it's no accident that he's a star!
This horse is nothing but fun and all Morgan!
This mare has it all! She is big, BEAUTIFUL, has a fabulous headset, is talented and game.
She rides and drives and has been very successful in hand as well.
At 6 years old, she's settled into her job, but has a ton of life and heart.
She is out of a Rare Flaire daughter and by World Grand Champion SYP High Definition. We flushed this mare this year and CAN'T wait to see the baby!


In a digital society where over 7 billion mobile devices are owned and interactions occur in the digital, XO have developed an emotional technology platform 'XOX' as a way make intelligent technology more emotional.
Benjamin Males, co-founder of XO, operates in the interdisciplinary grey area between science and art. Having graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in mechanical engineering, specialising in nuclear reactor technology, he then went on to join The Royal College of Art. Combining an advanced understanding of the physical world with the sensibility of product design, Benjamin has quickly become a leading figure in the Hybrid Design community. As a classically trained engineer, Males is able to lead the development of the XO products ensuring that the highest level of technical sophistication is achieved whilst still maintaining the affordances of fashion and design.
At the Internet of Things Summit, London, Benjamin will present an overview of XO, it's portfolio and methodology, and and their work with Hybrid designers to make science fiction into science fact. He'll also will demo the aforementioned XOX sensor, which allows show designers and producers access to the audience's intimate data, on himself and test subjects from the crowd, live streaming their data will be alongside his in real time.
What do you feel are the leading factors enabling advancements in IoT and wearables?
There are a number of factors that are enabling advancements. The development of low power and high performance micro controllers enable wearables to do more and catch up with advancements in cloud computing and IoT infrastructure. There is no point having smart spaces and places if there are no smart things and we believe wearables will account for a lot of the meaningful connected things.
Development in flexible and stretchable electronics is key for us at XO as we start to push against the physical boundaries of electronics in garments. We believe there will be exciting developments in printable and plastic electronics, especially in batteries and power distribution.
The standardization of protocols across the industry is important to enable new technologies to talk to the existing infrastructures and other devices.
What developments can we expect to see in sensors and textiles in the next 5 years?
We will start to see sensors that are woven directly into the fibers of textiles and fit more comfortably into our wardrobes. With advancements in speckled and distributed computing smart fibers will emerge as computing moves from the desk, to the pocket, to the write and ultimately on (and in) our bodies.
I think the ability to pair wearables with remote computing will allow our bodies to be connected and computing in ways we haven't even thought about yet.


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Election Results 2016: Did Voter ID & Voter Suppression Help Elect Trump?
By	Jessica McBride
Updated Nov 11, 2016 at 12:43pm
North Carolina early voters wait in line to cast their ballots. (Getty)
Donald Trump pulled off his victory by slim margins in three rust-belt states. Did voter suppression and voter ID play any role in Trump's electoral college victory?
There were voter suppression controversies in some of the states that determined the presidency, including Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina.
Wisconsin turnout plummeted to its lowest point in 20 years in the first election where voters were required to present an ID to vote. Trump won the typically presidential blue state by just over 27,000 votes. Wisconsin's elections chief told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he believed voter ID depressed turnout in high poverty wards, as the City of Milwaukee saw 41,000 fewer votes.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker introduces Donald Trump at the beginning of the rally. Upon taking the stage, Trump said that Walker has done a "fantastic job" for the state of Wisconsin. (Getty)
After the Supreme Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, many polling places were closed across the country. According to the Texas Tribune, five of the top 10 counties nationwide for closing polling places were in Texas (where Clinton had a late surge but Trump easily carried in the end). The court ruling invalidated a provision that made it tougher for some states to enact laws that restrict voting.
A November 2016 report by the Leadership Conference Education Fund found that voters had "at least 868 fewer places to cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election than they did in past elections, a 16 percent reduction," a finding it attributed to widespread polling place closings since the Supreme Court decision. Many of those were in Arizona, a battleground state that Clinton lost but turned so competitive the AP did't call it until November 10.
The New York Times said courts had invalidated Voter ID laws in Texas and North Carolina before the election. However, some remained.
There are many complex reasons Trump won, of course, and, although his margins of victory were slim in some key states, his victory was broad in that it encompassed enough states to make it unlikely a challenge could be brought on voter suppression issues that could change the outcome.
The bottom line: In state after state, Clinton failed to turn out her core constituencies, especially in Democratic areas like Milwaukee, with large African-American populations. Meanwhile, Trump flipped rural areas in multiple states, appealing to white working class voters (women) who lacked college degrees. For example, in Wisconsin, he flipped a series of Wisconsin counties along the Mississippi River valley that are dominated by blue-collar, working-class whites. In that state, he under-performed Mitt Romney in more populous Republican areas, and Clinton didn't turn out her voters in urban areas enough.
Wisconsin is not the only battleground state with election controversies. North Carolina was riven with controversies over alleged voter suppression in the days before the election, as accusations flew over declining polling places and purged voter registration lists. In Ohio, there were concerns about absentee ballots.
Issues also mattered. Democrats lost a portion of their base, as white working class voters without college educations switched to Trump, motivated by his positions on trade, jobs, and law-and-order. Some exit polls even had Trump performing better than Mitt Romney with Latino voters.
The liberal Nation said voter suppression was the most under-covered story of the campaign, counting 14 states with new voting restrictions, including Wisconsin and Virginia. The Nation also said "there were 868 fewer polling places in states with a long history of voting discrimination, like Arizona, Texas, and North Carolina," citing the Leadership Conference report.
Polling Place Closures
The 2016 report on polling closures found that "some states have closed polling places on a massive scale. In Arizona, almost every county reduced polling places. In Louisiana, 61 percent of parishes reduced polling places. In our limited sample of Alabama counties,
67 percent closed polling places. In Texas, 53 percent of counties in our limited sample reduced voting locations."
Of those states, Arizona was considered a battleground in the presidential election. Hillary Clinton lost the state, but it was tight enough that the Associated Press did not call Arizona for Donald Trump until November 10, a full two days after the election.
According to the report, four of the top 5 counties with the biggest reductions in polling places are in Arizona. There can be reasons for closing polling places. The report noted, "Some counties, particularly in Arizona and Texas, have consolidated polling places as part of a move to a 'super-precinct' or 'vote center' system for Election Day. Under this system, there are dramatically fewer polling places but voters from anywhere in a county can cast ballots at any of the remaining voting sites."
Some counties claimed they needed to close polling places to comply with disability laws, said the report.
Wisconsin & Voter ID
The November election marked the first time that Wisconsin voters had to show photo IDs at the polls. What happened to turnout? It plummeted. However, it's not clear for sure that photo ID drove all or even some of that; there could have been other factors at play, such as a general lack of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton as a candidate and her neglect of the state (she didn't visit it a single time after the primary).
Still, Wisconsin turnout was at a 20-year low for the 2016 presidential election, election officials told Fox 6 Milwaukee, with 66% of voters showing up. Voter distaste for the major presidential candidates lingered; three thousand people voted in the U.S. Senate race but skipped the presidential, said the television station. Statewide turnout was about 70% for the previous two presidential elections, said the TV station.
The highest statewide turnout in Wisconsin was 73% in 1994 and 1960.
The Voter ID controversy in Wisconsin has existed for years and is extremely polarized, just like the state. Republicans have argued IDs were needed to protect election integrity (and with both Houses of the Legislature in Republican control, along with the governor's mansion, they finally got their wish.) Wisconsin lists multiple documents that people can present at the polls to comply with the law. (In contrast, voters in Michigan, which has a Voter ID law, can vote by affidavit if they don't have required documents.)
Democrats argued Voter ID was a tactic to suppress the vote of minorities and traditional Democratic constituencies. In September, a federal judge expressed concern about allegations that "DMV personnel in the state have provided incorrect information to people who have applied for voter IDs." The Nation reported on those allegations.
The ACLU has argued that Wisconsin's Voter ID law is one of the "harshest" in the country and sued over the law. A district court struck down the law, but the ruling was overturned in the 7th Circuit. A federal trial court then ruled that the state needed to let people without IDs vote by affidavit, but the 7th Circuit stayed that ruling. Further legal challenges continue. The law first passed in 2011, but was hung up in legal battles. The New York Times said federal courts loosened some of the law's requirements, such as adding to the list of documents that college students could use to vote. The Times said the law limits voters to presenting one of eight forms of identification.
Todd Allbaugh, a former GOP legislative aide, testified during the Voter ID lawsuits that he heard GOP legislators urge the passing of the law because it would help Republicans win by affecting college campuses and Democratic Milwaukee, according to The Wisconsin State Journal. A federal judge at the trial court level had called the Voter ID law a "wretched failure" designed to suppress the African-American vote in Milwaukee. The state was told to issue a valid ID to any qualified voter who applied.
There were other factors at work to explain Trump's victory; Trump redrew the Wisconsin map. He flipped a region, the Mississippi River Valley along the western ridge of the state. That area went for Obama, but it's full of blue-collar white working class voters upset about the economy, trade, and jobs. Trump under-performed Mitt Romney in the state's populous "WOW" counties – the three affluent Republican counties that ring Milwaukee and which came out big for Scott Walker in previous governor's races.
In addition, millions of dollars flooded into the state in the final week to boost the candidacy of U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, whose seat was considered critical to Republican control of the U.S. Senate. Trump also had the boosting of a Republican governor, Walker, despite Wisconsin's presidential blue voting history.
Here's how the numbers broke down in Wisconsin:
Donald Trump 1,409,467
Hillary Clinton 1,382,210
Gary Johnson 106,442
Jill Stein 30,980
Darrell Castle (Constitution) 12,179
Monica Moorehead (Workers' World) 1,781
Rocky de La Fuente (Independent) 1,561
Total: 2,944,620
Total two party: 2,719,677
Total third party: 205,204 (about 7%)
In contrast, in 2012:
Barack Obama: 1,613,950
Mitt Romney: 1,408,746
Gary Johnson: 20,279
Jill Stein: 7,601
Virgil Goode: 4,908
J. White: 601
G. La Riva: 528
Total third party: 33,917 (about 1%)
The results are from The New York Times. The Wisconsin State Elections Board only posts county-by-county tallies. Let's look at some key county tallies from the state Elections Commission:
Milwaukee County 2016 (the state's most racially diverse county and a Democratic stronghold):
Trump: 126,091
Clinton: 288,986
Darrell Castle: 1,261
Monica Moorehead: 312
Rocky De La Fuente: 197
Write-in: 5,728
79.78 2016 Voter turnout (officials had predicted turnout of 85% in Milwaukee County, but it didn't materialize.)
In contrast, Milwaukee County turnout was about 87% in 2012.
2012: Milwaukee County total votes cast: 492,576
Romney: 154,924
Obama: 332,438
Virgil Goode: 594
Gary Johnson: 2,623
Gloria La Riva 98
Jerry White 78
Ross Anderson 2
Roseann Barr 2
Dane County 2016 (Democratic stronghold):
Trump: 71,270
2012 Dane County total votes cast:
Romney: 83,644
Waukesha County is one of the most Republican counties in the state. However, Mitt Romney did a lot better there than Trump did. Trump made up those votes in the western region of the state and a smattering of other rural areas, when juxtaposed by the lower turnout in Democratic bastions.
2016 Waukesha County (Republican stronghold)
Trump 145,519
Clinton 79,199
2012 Waukesha County
Romney 162,798
Obama 78,779
In North Carolina, said The New York Times, senior Republican officials said in emails that local elections boards should "choose polling places and voting hours" in ways that would "inconvenience" minorities and other Democratic leaning groups.
The polling closure report singles out North Carolina, saying that only 40 of the state's 100 counties had previously fallen under the section changed by the Supreme Court ruling (they previously needed to get pre-clearance for election changes. Since the Court decision, "12 of these counties have closed polling places, including several with clear records of discrimination. These counties closed an average of 12 percent of their voting locations," said the report.
North Carolina was considered a must-win state for Trump, and he ended up carrying the state.
The report added that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit previously found the state had "discriminated against voters
'with almost surgical precision.'" There were 27 fewer polling places in the 2016 election, said the report.
Slate said that the Republican Legislature had requested voting preference data based on race before passing a bill that "slashed early voting," including Sunday voting hours favored by African-Americans. Although the court blocked the change, early voting was cut back anyway by county-level boards, said Slate, which added that voters had to stand in long lines at the polls because of the decline in polling places.
This @NCGOP press release on early voting statistics highlights decrease in African-Americans voting. #ncpol pic.twitter.com/wzlegECMVX
— Colin Campbell (@RaleighReporter) November 7, 2016
The KKK announced it was planning a Trump victory parade in North Carolina.
The NAACP filed suit in North Carolina shortly before the election alleging that thousands of voter registrations were purged.
The Ohio secretary of state caused controversy by paring the list of registered voters who received absentee ballot applications, which are mailed to registered voters statewide.
There are 7.7 million registered voters in Ohio, and 1 million didn't receive the application, said The Columbus Dispatch. The newspaper said those purged changed their address or didn't vote in recent elections and didn't respond to inquiries for their addresses.
According to MSNBC, Republican officials passed new restrictions on absentee ballots, early voting, and voter registration.
In May, a federal judge said some of Ohio's rules were unconstitutional. The federal judge argued that the changes would disproportionately affect African-Americans. The Legislature "reduced the state's early voting period from 35 to 28 days" and eliminated what is called the state's "Golden Week," in which "eligible residents could register to vote and cast an absentee ballot at the same time," a week used more by blacks, said The Columbus Post-Dispatch.
Early voting hour cutbacks resulted in long lines in Ohio.
Republicans cut Ohio's Sunday voting options to just 10 hours (4 hours last Sunday, 6 hours today.) This is the result. https://t.co/w8yu8fDdCm
— Taniel (@Taniel) November 6, 2016
In Ohio, noted The New York Daily News, voters without ID can vote by provisional ballot, but few voters who do so follow through.
Florida cut back on the period of time when people can early vote and restricted voter registration drives, said The Daily News. One study that looked at the ramification of 2011 early voting reductions in Florida found they reduced minority participation in the 2012 election.
However, the Tampa Bay Tribune said, "The Legislature reversed itself in 2013 and expanded early voting to up to two weeks and at more locations following a nationwide furor in 2012 in which some voters waited in line for up to seven hours to cast ballots." Counties could offer early voting for 14 days at 12 hours a day, said the newspaper.
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Remove any element or section from any website in just two clicks. Page Eraser is an extension for Google Chrome that lets you customize any website in just two clicks.
The web can be a cluttered place full of stuffed sidebars, capricious comments and stupid social shortcuts. With Page Eraser you can rid of these annoying elements one at a time and slowly make your personal Internet into a place that only shows what you want to see.
EverNote Clearly and tools like it 5 Services That De-Clutter the Web for Readers 5 Services That De-Clutter the Web for Readers Read More clean up individual pages for reading, but only work if you actively use them. Page Eraser allows you to manually pick which elements you'd rather not see on a particular webpage and then removes them every time you visit that page. Of course we'd prefer it if you didn't use services like Page Eraser to remove ads – it's how sites like ours make a living. It's why Chris asked you to please whitelist us if you're using AdBlock Please Whitelist MakeUseOf In Adblock: A Plea From a Former Adblock Filter Developer Please Whitelist MakeUseOf In Adblock: A Plea From a Former Adblock Filter Developer It's no secret that we're not huge fans of Adblock here at MakeUseOf. But we know that some of you won't let go of Adblock until it's pried out of your cold, dead hands. If... Read More . But as always, it's up to you. but remember – we asked nicely!
Install this plugin and you'll see a simple eraser icon added at the top-right, where all Chrome plugins live. Click it and you can immediately start selecting elements to remove from your page. Just hover over them and you'll see them highlighted.
Click and the item will immediately disappear. Even better – it will be gone every time you visit the site in the future.
Be warned that seemingly similar elements are sometimes completely different, so you may find yourself removing the same elements over and over again. Your results will vary from site to site, but the plugin generally works well. Cached versions of a site could also interfere with the plugin, so sometimes you will need to reload a page while holding "CTRL" for the plugin to work.
Do you feel like you've removed too much from a site? You can access the plugin's settings by right-clicking the eraser icon and clicking "Options". Here you'll see a few options, along with the ability to completely reset any site to it's pre-Eraser form.
You'll need to start over, of course, but the site will become functional once again if you broke it. If you're like me, you'll remove everything you can until a given site is broken and wish this extension came with an "undo" tool. It doesn't, so starting over is your only option.
I can't hope to sum it up better than that.
If you're ready to download, you'll find Page Eraser in the Chrome Web Store, so installing this plugin couldn't be easier.
Note that you need at least Chrome 20 for the plugin to work, so ensure you're up-to-date before you try it out. You're almost certainly up to date, but it never hurts to check if something's not working.
This plugin isn't perfect – sometimes it seems like certain elements just won't go away – but when it works it's a simple way to simplify any site. I'm enjoying it and hope you do too.
What sites are you using Page Eraser on? Share them in the comments below.
Please help me find something that i can block/remove/delete/hide/disable something in a page i visit more than once but when i use phone. For computer i found already a solution. How can i remove a picture or a word link from a site by using phone? I want to disappear every inappropriate image or word appearing to any site i visit.
Hy ! I was trying to remove a video from a website and it didn't worked. How's that ? I tried to erase some toolbars or text, there have been erased for the moment , but after i refreshed the page they appeared again.
This is a pretty ancient tool at this point and might not work on all sites, sorry about that.
This will not reduce the page size, though might help with reducing the number of resources loaded, but then AdBlock is much better option for that purpose.
Great point: those ads can make otherwise work-safe sites completely unsafe.
Can you also unerase when you want using this extension ?
Need one of these for Firefox. Quality and amount of extensions has always been Firefox's primary strength.
Nuke everything i think is the name. Useful tool if you hate portions of sites i agree.
I've used Nuke Anything on Firefox in the past and really liked it. I have since switched to Chrome and hadn't found anything similar. This looks great.
Does it remember what to remove from a particular site, or is it just a one-time thing?
for Firefox there is "hack the web"


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If I applied for a job, how do I find out about its status and if I have been chosen for an interview?
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If I had an interview how do I find out the results?
Once an offer has been made to and accepted by the successful individual, the Human Resources Department will follow up with all candidates that participated in the interview process to inform them of the final result.


If you are new to Internet Marketing you may well ask what does being Alexa Ranked mean?
Basically your Alexa Ranking is the place that your website sits amongst all of the other websites in the world. Obviously in some cases that will mean you will see a number in the millions. Hopefully you will build your Alexa Rank so your site appears in the thousands, but considering that you are competing with every other site in the world it takes hard work and a bit of knowledge to rank well. In addition to this it is quite possible that your site will show no rank at all, meaning it is way down the list!
There are a number of things you can do to improve your Alexa Ranking. Good traffic to your blog, great content and lots of comments all help, so does having a social bookmark plugin activated. Backlinks are another strong factor and one way you can get these is by visiting other blogs and leaving valuable comments, making sure to attach your URL in the signature box. If 'commentluv' is activated on the site make sure you use it by leaving your name@your keywords in the 'name' box.
Another thing you can do to help your rank is to 'claim your site'. Essentially Alexa give you a piece of code to put on your site for them to search for, when they find it they allow you to create your own profile and download a customised widget to add to your site to show your rank (see my Alexa widget in the right sidebar).
Put your URL in the 'claim your site' box, then log in with your Alexa account details. If you have not already registered you can do this now on the login page. You will need to confirm the account by clicking a link in an email sent to the address you register. You will then choose your password.
Click on 'site tools' to continue with your site claim. You will be given two options, download a text file or add a meta tag. Click 'download text file' and copy the text provided. Paste this into notepad and save the file, naming it the code number enclosed in quotation marks within the text and adding '.txt' to the end. Here is an example: <meta name="alexaVerifyID" content="Pq7S8Alxh7ownXIQ183dq4″ />. Call your notepad file 'Pq7S8Alxh7ownXIQ183dq4.txt'. Obviously your ID code will be different to this example.
Go to your ftp client and upload this notepad document into the html part of your site (this is called the root directory). You can find this on the right side of the ftp window, named 'public_html'. Double click this then double click your website name to open that area. Locate your notepad document on the left side of your window, right click and select 'upload'.
Go back to Alexa, click the back button and then click 'verify my text file'. You will now be able to create your own profile, choose SEO options if you wish, and download widgets for your site in 'site tools'.
If you can, you should start to implement some strategies to increase your Alexa Rank today. Leave a comment below for a backlink – it's a good start!
If you go to the video tutorials page you can watch a video that will take you through these steps.
Iyt tells me in a little plugin for firefox that sits down in the bottom right corner of my screen..
Hi Randy, thanks for visiting. I also use a tool that tells me what every sites rank is. This site is still quite low down the scale, I'm monitoring how each task I perform affects the rank. Claiming the domain whacked 100k off my total.
Hey Randy just want to say thanks for this useful plug-in. T.
Hi Terry, yes, the tools are useful. I use the Alexa toolbar so it tells me the rank of every site I visit. Interesting development, since getting a bunch of comments on this post my rank has gone down from 1.7m to 1.3m in a few days. Clearly traffic is a big key to rank, and clearly that is why mandyallen.com ranks well, my traffic and comments are high!
Thanks for the 'heads up' on this Mandy, I've never really paid much attention to the Alexa rank before.
Now I know what it is and understand a bit about how it works I can put it on my (getting longer by the day!) 'to do' list!!
Hi Stuart, thanks for visiting. I discovered the Alexa site a long time ago and checked my ranking from time to time. It's only recently that I fully understood how to use it to my advantage.
Alexa rank is one of those weird things that we all put store in…..I tend to use it as a relative indicator for traffic to two different blogs I have.
But here's some interesting numbers to share with your audience.
The Alexa rank of my bass guitar site is 760,000 – something like that. And it gets around 450 to 500 unique visits a day.
That's really interesting, Paul. I think it's just a good indicator we can all see, and it's a great feeling watching your ranking drop.
It's interesting that you noticed claiming your domain knocked 100k off your Alexa ranking. Very interesting.
Alexa rank is something I've been monitoring on my own site since January. The Alexa site is also a good place to do some research on the backlinks your competitors are getting. Those are the "Sites Linking In" or however they phrase it.
Thanks for your first-hand knowledge of the claim your domain feature.
Hi Jon, I was taking notice of the adjustments I made on this site and how they affected it. My personal blog, mandyallen.com, has a much better ranking but I never knew why, so I thought I would try a few things to see what happened. Signing up with Active Search Results had a good affect too.
Never knew you had this other blog here. You have very good interesting topics, will be visiting more often.
Your Alexa ranking is important because a lot of people look at it when visiting websites.
Thanks for bringing this to light and letting us know what we can do to lower our ranking.
Hi Terry, good to see you here. I never really promoted this blog, wanted to get a load of good content on here first, so now I am working to get it ranked higher and taking note of everything I do and how it affects the rank.
wow am I behind the times! I didn't even know you had this site!
Great info too. Alexa is important as well as Google page rank. I do have that tool on my blog but not the Alexa one nor have I created a profile..
Hi Kathy, thanks for visiting. I intend to add a video later this month to show people who are still unclear about how to achieve this. I always learned better from videos.
Hi Mandy, Thanks for the instructions. I had registered but overlooked the uploading of the txt doc.
Thanks to your clear instructions I've now completed that so will have to see how it affects my ranking, which by the way has dropped by 50,000 so far this year due to being away so much for my mum.
I look forward to more great posts like this Mandy, I also look forward to the video you mentioned to Kathy.
Hi Barry, thanks for visiting. Yes, I will get the video sorted in the nest week or so and upload it. I'll let you know when it is live.
Sounds like this is another blog you have, or is it the new look of the same blog. whatever it is , it is very very fresh look spring like and attractive.
Blog post is informative. I do have Alexa ranking bar, and I can check every site as soon as it comes up on the screen.
But my own experience and based on what every one says has stopped believing it.
I can't fault you for that, Fran. I do know it is just supposed to be a guide, nothing more.
I have had this blog for a while, I never promoted it because I wanted to get a lot of good content on here first. Now mandyallen.com is doing so well I felt it was time to make something of this site. Glad you like it.
Quite an interesting post… especially about what claiming your domain did for your Alexa ranking!
However, I have a similar experience to Paul.
I have a travel website with an Alexa ranking of approximately 1.5 million and it gets about 600 – 700 visitors per day.
My main blog however is ranking at 750k – 760k and my average daily visitors number about 46!
Hi Dottson, thanks for visiting. As I said, it is only an indicator and it is nice to see a lower number on the ranking. I have been watching what effect each action I perform has on the ranking and it has been an interesting exercise.
Very interesting article about Alexa,ive heard of them but didnt know exactly what they did,oh well learn something new each day,i,ll put a widget on my blog and by the way thanks for blog comment.
Hi Joe, thanks for visiting. Glad to have been of help.
I used to have the Alexa toolbar on my desktop, and yiou know the weird thing is I never really paid any attention to it, as a matter of fact I uninstalled it because of that, after reading your post I think maybe it's time I took another look at this tool, it looks like one I need to paid attention to for seeing how my business and websites stand in the world!
Thanks for the Ed's up….Ed.
Hi Ed, nice to see you here. I just like to see where my site sits in amongst others. This one has crept up the rankings well since I started promoting it. Very interesting to see what a difference the actions I take make. mandyallen.com sits well and I'm very pleased with it's position. One key to retaining your rank though is to submit posts regularly. I see mandyallen.com falls quite a bit if I haven't posted for a while.
Thanks for this clear explanation of Alexa Ranking. I have put a ranking widget on my blog but it is currently just showing my rank as "no data" so I guess I have a long, long, long way to go building backlinks before I make it into the thousands! Hopefully by participating in your Blog Carnival I will get a few backlinks to help me get started.
Hi Ian, glad to hear you are joining in with the Carnival. One of the advantages is you get a topic idea each month so you don't have to think one up for yourself. Your rank will improve quite quickly once you start posting and commenting and getting those backlinks. Go to Alexa and claim your site too, it really does make a difference.
Hi Alex, good to see you here. It's good to install the toolbar (or any other Alexa ranking tool you might find) as you can instantly see the rank of any site you visit. You can then see if you can work out what the site owner does to get such a high rank!
Hi Alex, thanks for visiting. Glad you managed to sort it out and it should gradually get higher, as you say, with time.
Hi Mandy, Thanks so much for this very helpful blog post. I had heard of Alexa and even have the toolbar, but didn't know about registering my site at Alexa. I am going through the steps now to put the code in my site.
When I mentioned this blog post to a friend of mine who has her own website, she was suspicious about Alexa and asked, how accurate could this be if 100,000 was knocked off of her Alexa ranking by registering with Alexa?
She had a good point that I don't know the answer to. Do you have any thoughts on this?
Hi Carolyn, it is about Alexa recognising the owner of a site and verifying that the site does indeed belong to a real person, and it not robot operated. I am surprised if your friend has not heard of Alexa as it is a ranking system most Internet Marketers take some notice of. Claiming your site with Alexa improves your ranking, as I have said in this post. I was surprised at my results. I have now added a video tutorial that goes through the steps.
I like to think of Alexa as a benevolent dictator – sometimes she is positive, other times she just ignores us.
The measure, just like Google Page Rank, is malleable and can change with each update of the algorithm or at alexa's whim.
Thanks for visiting. I do agree that it is just aguide, not an accurate assessment. I must go over to Yahoo and check out their tools, thanks for the tip.
Really enjoyed reading this post, I have been using Alexa for 6 days now and already my Ranking has improved by nearly 60% .. unbelievable! I have Barry to thank for that.
Hi Ian, glad to have helped. It is just a guide, but a very useful one at that. Do you have an xml sitemap too? You should get one, read the next post as well. Thanks for visiting.
Alexa rank is just view for fun, there's no value as the rule.
Hi Tony, thanks for visiting. I don't disagree but I do think it is a useful guide, and I love to see the number dropping!


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LINK for Part 1 of On Spaceships and Saunas
Human nature has long been associated with pleasure, a powerful feeling capable of articulating body and soul, thus releasing mankind, even if momentarily, from its all-too-grounded existence on Earth, destined as it seems to endure a rather laborious, extenuating, survival oriented life.
As we've reached the 21st century, any contemplation of a better world has been blatantly discouraged by the force of capitalism and the so-called Anthropocene. Indelibly marking the planet at current times, and acting as a new geological era signalling the exhaustion of life on Earth, this human phenomenon brings into question how the promiscuous entanglement between culture, technology and nature has utterly transformed our landscapes and lives, forging a second nature as artificial as the romantic projection of a first nature – or of what it had possibly been prior to civilisation.
COVID – 19 is just one of the side effects of a runaway world, whose current features are as resembling of a sci-fi novel as they are of our innermost disquieting images of a collapsing future, depicted with the same curiosity and fear of extinction that propels humankind vertically towards the outer space, the Moon and beyond. In the midst of this not so brave new world, how could the overlapping spheres of angst, science and pleasure impact our minds and future?
It's still soon to predict how the world will appear and operate in the near future. Philosophers and scientists alike argue that the current pandemics and climate atrocity has opened up The window of opportunity that could allow us to reshape the world, not only environmentally speaking but also politically on all levels: to slow down consumption, communication and capitalism; to (re) establish the welfare state; to expand democracy and consolidate democratic societies, which have been gradually fading in recent years (the US and Brazil to name but a few); to preserve the ozone layer, the Amazon and endangered species elsewhere; to nourish solidarity among nations and citizens; to enjoy a more fulfilling, frugal and pleasurable life; the list of wishes/demands goes on and on...
For all we know, so far, not only life on the planet has been exposed in its extreme feebleness – to the extent of reaching a point of no return – but also the innermost human qualities have been put at stake, risking gradual loss of affection and therefore emotional numbness.
Simulated black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman
Humanity has been enduring dramatic shifts in its sensibility in the recent past. AIDS had already reframed sexuality in the 1980's, banning free sex from the world agenda and establishing caution as the common ground for all human sex interaction, while the Internet has virtually been separating individuals physically and therefore emotionally in an unforeseen fashion.
In this increasingly aseptic world – at least, when it comes to human interaction – that nonetheless bears a tremendous virulent and filthy relationship towards nature, it remains to be seen if our civilisation will eventually be able to preserve not only saunas, sex and the human factor in all its diversity, but foremost the planet as a sustainable, democratic and pleasurable environment for generations to come, in the near and distant futures.
Albeit this toxic atmosphere, it would be wise to keep Mars and the black holes as speculative research fields – even if we do manage to reach them in the flesh – and not the sole and only escape route of a sombre, drained and dangerous, ill-fated world.
Since art and science operate as portals to the realm of fiction, allowing us to delve into the unknown – and perhaps to grasp reality in all its (lack of) plasticity –, the notions of invention and discovery become analogous, driving forces that help us shape both the present and the future through politics and imagination.


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10 Jul Corporate Housing Makes It Convenient for Relocated Talents and Companies
In Europe, they're mostly called serviced apartments. In the United States, they're called corporate housing. They're one and the same. Both services in Europe and the US are on the rise, with the traditional family home on the wane.
That's one trend as far as relocations of assignees and expatriate workers are concerned. The reasons can be attributed to other developments in the global mobility space, such as a more mobile millennial workforce, increasing short-term assignments, and the need to move in — and move out — as quickly as possible.
Up to a few decades ago, the traditional expatriate assigned to a foreign office had conditioned their mindset that they and their family will remain in that particular region for a long time. Five years then were the minimum.
Some of them had even told themselves that, as far as professional movements were concerned, the assignment might as well be regarded as a lifetime. It was one way to avoid homesickness, as well as to curb the tendency to bolt should things get tough.
But, as any businessman or corporate head is beginning to realize these days, establishments in the 21st century may yet be built to last — but they also have to be resilient and flexible enough to survive disruption.
Entire countries may break out of regional or continental associations. A national revolution can send expatriates packing. And the next IT or software innovation might make a lot of jobs obsolete, while birthing new ones.
Assignees who want to work on foreign shores must equally be adaptable.They must be ready to jump into a hotspot one month, then perhaps vacate it and fly toward the next international challenge a year after. The millennial talent may actually thrive in this kind of environment.
An enhanced and enriching experience is one of their prime motivations for professional advancement, and many of them would choose two to three short-term assignments spread over several cities in the span of five to six years, as opposed to one long-term stay in one country for the same period of time.
PriceWaterhouse Coopers forecasts that the increase of assignee recruitment and relocation by 50 percent in the next two years will inevitably trigger an equal rise in business travel.
Where does corporate apartments fall into this development?
First, they are more economical. As The Think Tank Blog points out, it ultimately boils down to economics. An average assignee's contract in a choice assignment can run from one to two years, as opposed to the old five-year-housing arrangement. The managers who run corporate housing offers more flexible and shorter terms.
Their costs are also more attractive as many of them do not include the features that often make the traditional luxurious home of an expat prohibitive, e.g. a massive garden or two living rooms. Corporate housing can offer the same elegance, security, privacy, and relaxation-inducing ambience but at a more affordable price.
Second, according to The Expat Finder, corporate housing is located at the heart of the city or the capital. So are the traditional posh homes. However, these latter domains are built to invite CEOs and the higher-ups to stay in and bask in the luxury of their expansive surroundings.
Corporate apartments offer compact convenience as well. However, far from being set in secluded areas, they offer easy access to popular lifestyle hubs or night spots such as bars, restaurants, concert venues, museums, and amusement areas. Any assignee wanting to chill and de-stress can find a rest-and-relaxation spot in a few minutes.
Finally, they can provide the assignee, who is a foreign national, a more customized home experience, says Conde Nast Johansen.
Assignees leasing a traditional home may find that the design, although open to change, is difficult to modify. It may seem like one set piece where transforming the wall of the color or adding a more distinct kind of feature may throw the design out of kilter. Ultimately, except for a few trimmings and accessories, it is the assignee who has to adapt to the home, and not vice versa.
In contrast, corporate housing is easier and quicker to redesign and customize. The assignee may discuss the apartment look, furniture, materials, and style with the property developer to suit their taste before moving in.
The personalized experience can be as specific as the assignee wants. For example, at the height of the Wimbledon match a few years ago, California Corporate Housing literally revamped the hues, decor, and furniture arrangement of one unit — in order to make one Wimbledon-devoted assignee vicariously live out the competition over and over, long after the games have finished.
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BubbleGuardian Improves Slip Quality
Sponsored by Pulsar Process Measurement LtdAug 13 2001
A new instrument has been developed for the detection and quantification of air bubble contamination in slip, enabling pinhole faults in slipcast ware to be reduced. The BubbleGuardian system is designed so that air bubbles can be detected in slip streams flowing through pipes without any requirement to extract samples from the slip system.
Using a novel ultrasonic bubble detection technique, the system is said to be well suited to industrial application, with several key benefits offered:
• Non-invasive in character.
• Easily mounted on the outside of a slip pipe.
• Easily understood through warning light indication of bubble concentration.
• Sensitive to very low levels of contamination.
• Capable of continuous monitoring of slip supply or temporary diagnostic use.
• Suitable for remote monitoring.
The BubbleGuardian was developed in a recently completed CRAFT project. The prime project proposer was Pulsar Process Measurement (UK), the fundamental research was carried out by
the Institute of Sound & Vibration Research at Southampton University and the laboratory evaluation and field trials were coordinated by Ceram Research. SME partners were Sphinx (Holland), Quality Ceramics (Ireland), Porcelanas Bidasoa (Spain) and Bridgewater Pottery (UK).
The instrument detects the interaction of bubbles with ultrasonic signals transmitted through the pipe. Novel signal processing developed for the instrument converts the returning signal into a voltage output, which is directly related to the quantity of air in the slip. The relay output can either operate warning indicators at the unit or be used as an input to a remote monitoring system.
Source: Global Ceramic Review, No 4/00, p. 14, Winter 2000/2001
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Robots, digitization, artificial intelligence: Technical developments set a new stage for human-machine interaction and present societies with unknown challenges. While new inventions already permeate production, professions and our everyday lives, technology supporters and sceptics alike are discussing the changes on all levels of society. How will coming generations of robots interact with humans? What will future operation rooms look like? Will robots replace us at work?
The interdisciplinary lecture series offers an opportunity to engage critical research positions and arguments. Established scholars will cover the field from technical innovations and challenges to legal, sociological and political questions, including the historical origins of machine learning.
The presenetation tonight 21 November is cancelled. Nothing on.
Collegium Generale talks on the theme of robotics. The theme of the English session on Wednesday, 21 November is Robots and Care-Giving in Japan.
See www.unibe.ch/universitaet/universitaet_fuer_alle/collegium_generale/ vorlesungsreihen/index_ger.html for more details on all the talks. The last presentation is on 11 December.
We use methods and technologies coming from competitive sports to improve the rehabilitation process of people after accidents or illnesses.
Biomedical technology is one of the most promising fields of research, and sources of economic opportunities of the 21st century. Thanks to increasing life expectancy, its global development and growth potential is far above average. In Switzerland, medical technology is a particularly well established industry sector that has reached very high standards. Swiss companies are among the global leaders in many key business areas in the field. Start-ups and enterprises which occupy market niches have the chance to reap extraordinary rewards.
The event is an efficient platform in Switzerland for networking of Master and PhD graduates and Swiss and international medical technology companies.
2016: One highlight of the day was the successful live hand surgery by Carsten Surke, Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Inselspital Bern. Illustrative explanations in the auditorium were given by Bettina Juon Personeni, from the same department.
A team of surgeons and engineers of Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, have developed a high-precision surgical robot for cochlear implantation. On 15 March 2017 they report on their first successful Robotic Cochlear Implantation (RCI) in Science Robotics.
This program provides education on the theory, technology and practice of intelligent robots, such as mobile robots, wearable robots, robotic manipulators, autonomous and brain-interfaced robots. In addition to classes spanning from electromechanical systems to advanced artificial intelligence, the program offers a large set of hands-on activities where students learn by designing, prototyping and validating robotic systems.
Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in microengineering. Holders of a Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or any related field with an interdisciplinary background (mastering at least two of the three following fields: computer science, electronics, and mechanical engineering) may also be accepted.
The range of motion that someone can do while wearing a prosthetic device is constrained due to lack of control and functionality. We are working to develop control interfaces that can decode the intention of the user by its muscular activity (EMG).
Feel free to use pictures and movies without prior permission, provided they are credited as follows: Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL.
Can be handy in all sorts of ways there's discussion of creating a humanoid form robot to do fire fighting; we might have drones and robots delivering aid.
Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors.